Plauderknopf

Description

Plauderknopf adds a floating chat button with a small popup (avatar, name, welcome message, contact options) to your site.
Visitors are sent to the chosen service only when they click a channel. Until then, no data is transferred to third parties.

• Channels: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, phone, email, SMS – with prefilled messages and the placeholders {page_title} and {url}
• Contact persons with photo, role, their own channel and their own availability (shown greyed out outside their hours)
• Design: position, offsets, size, colors (text contrast is chosen automatically), icon, button shape, window corner radius, light/dark/system theme
• Behaviour: delayed appearance, auto-open after time, scroll depth or exit intent, notification badge
• Targeting: all pages, all except, only on (paths with * wildcards), devices, new or returning visitors
• Schedule: weekdays and hours (also across midnight) in the site timezone; hide the button or show an offline note outside hours
• Statistics: clicks per channel and day – anonymous, no cookies, no IP addresses
• Shortcode [plauderknopf channel=”whatsapp” label=”…” message=”…”] for buttons inside content
• Import from “Elfsight WhatsApp Chat CC”
• Rendered in a Shadow DOM, so theme CSS cannot break it; keyboard accessible (Esc, ARIA)

The plugin is translation-ready. Translations are managed on translate.wordpress.org.

WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram are trademarks of Meta Platforms, Inc. Telegram is a trademark of Telegram FZ-LLC. Signal is a trademark of Signal Technology Foundation.
Plauderknopf is not affiliated with or endorsed by these companies.

Privacy

All assets load from your own server. A click counter stores aggregated numbers per day and channel without personal data.
In the visitor’s browser, localStorage/sessionStorage remembers whether the popup was opened and whether this is the first visit.
A suggested text for your privacy policy is added under Settings → Privacy.

External services

Plauderknopf does not contact any external service on its own. It only creates links. When a visitor clicks a channel, their browser opens that service, and the provider’s terms and privacy policy apply:

• WhatsApp (wa.me) – Terms, Privacy
• Telegram (t.me) – Terms, Privacy
• Signal (signal.me) – Terms & Privacy
• Facebook Messenger (m.me) – Terms, Privacy
• Instagram (ig.me) – Terms, Privacy

The page path where the click happened and the page title can be included in a prefilled message if you add the placeholders {url} or {page_title} to that message.

Credits

Brand icons for WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger and Instagram are from Simple Icons (CC0 1.0).

Hooks

• Filter plauderknopf_should_display (bool $show, array $settings)
• Filter plauderknopf_config (array $config, array $settings)
• Action plauderknopf_click (string $channel)